~/tank/Mandarin-media/semiquaver__Album_cover_of_chinese_synth-pop_album_cover_for__eeca2d51-133a-4ace-83cf-f92aaa05d26a_3.png — 1024×1024 PNG. The band photo and overall layout are kept as-is; only the two large yellow "characters" on the left vertical band were replaced (the originals were hallucinated glyphs, not readable Chinese).
images/xinghe-cover.jpg — 1024×1024 JPEG, quality 88.
- Sampled a clean band texture from the only large region of the magenta band that was free of glyphs and scratches: a 145×40 strip at
+0+380(just below the second original glyph). - Stretched the strip to 240×40, tiled it vertically to 240×460, and composited over the original at
+0+0. This covers the wide upper section of the band; the narrow lower section (y>460) is untouched and preserves the original scribbly small text. - Rendered 星 and 河 with
Hiragino-Sans-GB-W6at 240pt, trimmed, then resized each glyph to 234×160 (wider than tall) to match the squat proportions of the original AI glyphs. Fill color#f0b048(yellow-orange, sampled from the original glyph color). - Composited at
+5+34and+5+208to align with the y-positions of the originals.
The wide upper section of the magenta band runs x=0..240, not x=0..145 as I first assumed — the original glyphs hang off the band and a first-pass patch that was only as wide as the glyphs themselves left a thin dark strip of the original band visible at the right.
Most "clean-looking" strips of the band contain small orange characters or scratches. Sampling a strip with even one such artifact creates a horizontal repeat band of fake glyph residue across the whole patch. The x=0..145, y=380..420 region was the largest contiguous purple area I could find.
The original is preserved; the work can be redone by re-rendering the chars (Hiragino Sans GB W6 → resize 234×160 → composite at +5+34 / +5+208) over a freshly sampled band patch.